Sentences with phrase «u.s. nuclear generators»
The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), a group that represents the bulk of U.S. nuclear generators, said that damage payments average $ 2.2 million per day — or about $ 800 million per year.
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All but two of the 440 or so commercial nuclear reactors operating are thermal, and most of them — including the 103 U.S. power reactors — employ water both to slow neutrons and to carry fission - created heat to the associated electric generators.
More than 100 gigawatts of geothermal power (one tenth of the current U.S. electrical generation) could be developed for $ 1 billion during the next 40 years — at the full cost of one carbon - capturing coal - fired power plant or one - third the cost of a new nuclear generator.
Two more U.S. nuclear power plants are facing early retirement, joining a string of generators whose fate was determined by market conditions, political pressure, or financial stresses assailing the sector.